Hannah Dela Cruz Abrams is the author of The Man Who Danced with Dolls, for which she received a Whiting Writers Award and a Rona Jaffe National Literary Award. Abrams has also been awarded a North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship. Her work has appeared in The Oxford American, The Pinch, Southern Humanities Review, Mayday Magazine, Flash Fiction, storySouth, Carolina Quarterly, and elsewhere. Abrams lives and teaches in Wilmington, North Carolina.